Oakville Power Plant Victory

Oakville's Citizen movement to halt the Power Plant at the QEW inspires the voters and residents, Comments on Grass Roots organization, Flip Flop from McGuinty But what are the factors? We all use electricity.... So what is the solution? These are but a few of the polarized comments that are posted at the Globe and Mail. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/province-pulls-plug-on-gas-fired-plant/article1747600/comments/

DGC traveler...

1:05 PM on October 7, 2010

They are going to need a lot more transmission lines if the residents of Oakville want to keep the AC and the pool heaters running.

You know Latte machines do not work well during a brownout.

NIMBY - They need power, but don't want the generators to produce it....

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Catcity

1:27 PM on October 7, 2010

Before accusing Oakville of NIMBY-ism do some research about the issue.

The transmission lines already exist. They run from Nanticoke who has requested that this plant be located in their community.

Natural gas fired plants of this size are hazardous and should not be built in any neighborhood - Oakville or others. These kinds of plants need buffer zones.

Rosehill Ave

2:10 PM on October 7, 2010

The Nanticoke site is being reserved for a nuclear plant to be constructed in the 2020+ time frame.

You don't waste firm transmission capacity on a smaller peaking gas plant like this, that would be stupid.

The transmission capacity from Nanticoke supports its former capacity of 3,600 MW, which is about the size of small nukes.

Sorry Catcity, but constructing a smaller plant like this at the Nanticoke site would be a waste of transmission capacity, and thats a fact. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/province-pulls-plug-on-gas-fired-plant/article1747600/comments/

David Pylyp This is such a charged issue. I don't want to see a power plant near residential housing, But Hydro lines and transmission corridors are also a blight on the landscape. (Transmission corridors also consume the power they transmit) While Oakville may be waining in its Hydro consumption I seem to recall that Toronto News Media was talking about record consumption levels of Electricity in Toronto with the warming summers.